Sunday, April 28, 2013

This tutorial was written
by Sarah Fiack on
April 28 ,2013
Any resemblance to another
tutorial is purely coincidental.
For this tutorial, I’m using a
tube by Barbara Jensen.
You can purchase the tube at
her store.

Supplies:
Tube of choice
Scrap of choice.
I am using a scrap collab called Memories.
It was at DigiscrapbookingHere

Open a 700x700 new image.
Open up your tube & scrap supplies.

Open a bubble element.
Copy & paste as a new layer.

Select your ellipse preset shape tool.
Width size doesnt matter.
Fill option on your materials palette
X'ed out.
Just need a color on the stroke option.
Draw out a circle the same size of
the bubble.
Convert to raster.

Open a scrap paper.
Resize as needed. For the one I am using,
I resized 20%.

Click inside the circle preset shape.
Selections modify expand by 1.
Paste the paper as a new layer.
Selections invert & paste as a new layer.
Move to bottom layer below the bubble.
Keep the circle layer selected.

Open a leaf branch element.
Resize as needed.
I resize 50% & 40% once each.
Paste as new layer between the paper &
bubble layers.
Press delete.

Paste your tube above the leaf branch element.
Duplicate once. Move the copy layer to
the top layer in your layer palette.
X it out for now.

On the original tube layer, press delete.
This should make it so just the tube is inside the
bubble & not on the outside.
Select none. Add a drop shadow to the
tube: 2,2,25,5 Black
X out the original tube layer.

Now back on the tube copy layer, unhide it.
Lower the opacity as needed on this layer.
Erase any parts showing past the bottom of the bubble.
Once happy, put the opacity back to 100.
And unhide the original layer.

You can delete the circle shape layer now off
of your tag.
Add the above drop shadow to the bubble layer as well.

Open a flower element.
Resize as needed. For mine, I resized 50% three times.
I pasted on either side of the bottom of your tube.
You want the flower layers behind your tube.
The flowers should be peeking out from behind your tube.

Open a doodle element.
Resize as needed. For the one I am using, I resized
20& 80% once each.
I pasted behind the tube copy layer.
Add the earlier drop shadow to the doodle.
The doodle I chose is subtle but there.

Friday, April 26, 2013

This tutorial was written
by Sarah Fiack on
April 26,2013
Any resemblance to another
tutorial is purely coincidental.
For this tutorial, I’m using a
tube by Arthur Crowe.
You can purchase the tube at
his store.

Supplies:
Tube of choice
Scrap of choice.
I am using a matching kit called Beauty
Charleston by Desirena Designs. It is available
at Arthur Crowe's store also.
Mask MC_Mask10 by Melissa CreationzBlog

Animation Shop

Open a 700x700 new white image.
I like room to work- we can always
crop later.

Open two frames from the matching kit.
Copy & paste the pink & black frame first.
Then copy & paste the pearl frame on top
of it.
Merge the two frame layers together.

Click inside the frames with your magic wand
tool.
Selections modify expand by 5.
Paste a paper of choice as a new layer.
Selections invert & press delete.
Move the paper under the frame layer.

Open a closeup of your tube.
Resize 75%.
Paste as a new layer between the paper
& frame layers.
Press delete. Select none.
Merge the paper & tube layer together.

Open your full length tube.
Resize 80%.
Arrange on a side besides your frame.

Copy & paste the background, mask layer & frame over
to AS. Paste as a new animation. Hold Ctrl L down to duplicate
this to 6 frames. You will have to repeatedly press L to do this.

Once you have 6 frames, select all.
On your animation close up, select all & copy.
Move over to the center of the frame
on the tag.

Once you have that all set, Copy and paste
the rest of your tag from psp.
Repeat the above steps with it,
Once you are all set, Select all & view animation.
My tag ended with 2 frames.
If happy, save as gif.

On the top layer, apply the plugin
Unplugged Shapes Twin Rings
Default settings.
Now with the magic wand again,
click inside each part that is colored.
You may have to hold shift button down
while doing this to keep them all selected.

Merge layers visible.
Add a new raster layer to
the tag. Fill with a 2nd color from
the tag. Select with your magic wand.
Selections contract by 5.
Press delete button.
Select none.
You now have a border for the tag!
Apply the earlier adjust noise.
Merge layers.

Add artist copyright & name to the tag.
Save as png.
Thanks for trying my tutorial!

Friday, April 5, 2013

A wonderful coming soon tube by Ismael Rac. I of course always love cupcake tubes. I am so happy I can play with this one! She will be out soon in his store. I also used a PTU scrap by Wicked Princess Scrap called Cupcake Rainbow.You can visit her blog.